Gas Processing/LNG
Energy group proceeds with $45bn Alaska pipeline to export LNG to Asia
In a letter to Alaska Governor Sean Parnell, ExxonMobil, ConocoPhillips, BP and TransCanada said this week that they have agreed on a plan to combine what were once two competing natural gas pipeline projects destined for the continental US into one project aiming at overseas markets.
KBR to study Statoil LNG export project in Tanzania
The pre-FEED study is designed to help Statoil further assess the viability of developing an LNG facility to export natural gas from this East African region. The project is expected to be completed during 2013.
Alliance receives regulatory approval for proposed Bakken gas pipeline
The Tioga pipeline should be running by mid-2013. Although new drilling technology has greatly boosted hydrocarbon production in the Bakken, in North Dakota's Williston Basin, a lack of pipelines has led oil producers to resort to rail cars to move product and gas producers have had to burn excess product.
New pipelines could worsen US natural gas glut
A recently-released report finds that new natural gas pipelines being introduced later this year could add to the supply glut in the US. Department of Energy data show that there are approximately 1,000 Marcellus shale wells that are uncompleted due to a lack of pipeline access.
Statoil suspends planned Snøhvit LNG expansion
Norwegian oil and gas major Statoil ASA said the owners of the Snøhvit natural gas field have decided to cancel work on a possible increase in gas export capacity from its LNG plant at Melkøya, as current gas finds do not provide the basis for further capacity.
HP Impact: Natural gas vehicles could be gaining traction
Natural gas vehicles could be gaining tractionA new report from PIRA Energy Group says that the sheer volume of US recoverable gas resources relative to expected demand suggests that benchmark Henry H..
HP Construction: North America
Jacobs Engineering Group Inc. has a contract from Methanex Corp. to provide engineering, procurement and construction services for a methanol production facility in Louisiana. Officials estimate the c..
HP Construction: South America
A subsidiary of Foster Wheeler AG’s Global Engineering and Construction Group has a contract from Petrobras for a world-scale grassroots gas-to-chemicals complex—Complexo Gás-Quími..
HP Construction: Europe
Clariant has inaugurated what is said to be Germany’s biggest pilot plant for producing climate-friendly cellulose ethanol from agricultural waste. Located in Straubing, Bavaria, and supported by..
HP Construction: Middle East
KAR Group has announced the third expansion of its Kalak refinery to 185,000 bpd. Process units and utilities are being provided by Ventech Engineers LLC of Pasadena, Texas. Ventech has provided modul..
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- Casale and OMNI Sign MoA to jointly advance waste-to-green methanol and hydrogen technologies 1/29
- GIZ and thyssenkrupp nucera partner to advance green hydrogen and power-to-X markets in India 1/29
- IACS issues new Unified Requirement on ammonia release mitigation systems 1/29
- TotalEnergies and Mozambique announce the full restart of the $20-B Mozambique LNG project 1/29
- CF Industries, POET launch low-carbon fertilizer pilot to cut ethanol production carbon intensity 1/29
